Howard Stringer Quotes

There's no doubt in my mind that people on the West Coast - L.A. particularly - and the East Coast have no clue at all about what's happening outside their own little bailiwick. And they think everybody is stupid because they are not sophisticated.

New York is very provincial. They're very cut-off; they don't have an awareness of so much that is going on in the world.

I've spent a lot of time in L.A. and I love it. A lot of Brits can't stand the place, but I like the West Coast attitude and the way people celebrate success.

I live in Hollywood, California. It's absolutely nothing like Absaroka County, Wyoming. For me, it's a great escape and I really enjoy it.

I think provincialism is an endemic characteristic with mankind, I think everybody everywhere is provincial, but it is particularly striking with Texans, and we tend to be very Texcentric.

When we lived in Juneau, Alaska, it was a town of about 7,000 people, and totally isolated; the only way to get to it was by ship.

Little America

New York is just as provincial as anyone else.

The people in Washington spend too much time in Washington, so they think Washington-centric thoughts.

Narrow-minded provincialism: Sad to say but true - I am more interested in the mountain lions of Utah, the wild pigs of Arizona, than I am in the fate of all the Arabs of Araby, all the Wogs of Hindustan, all the Ethiopes of Abyssinia.

I grew up in a super small town in upstate New York; my nearest neighbour was really far away.

It was a rural upbringing by the seaside. A real quiet place surrounded by fields. I had to travel into town for school and stuff like that.

The film industry not only in India but also Hollywood is insular. It's inward-looking.

Growing up in a small town, in the Midwest, and Catholic - those are sort of three layers of repression.

I'm from Los Angeles. I grew up on the west side. I went to Pali High, Paul Revere, Country Canyon.

Britain is a desirable place to live mainly because it is an island, which most people can't get to.

L.A.'s been my home.

When you live in a small town behind the Pine Curtain, you live inside your head a lot.

It took me a long time to adapt to the West Coast. I lived eight years in New York before California and might have gone back. Then I discovered surfing. It's the California equivalent of ice hockey, I guess. It gave me a real sense of place.

The more I come to L.A., the more it's amazing.

When I was a kid growing up, I lived in a little rural village called Woolton Hill, and the nearest town was Newbury. No bands played anywhere near us, so as much as I wanted to be on the grid and in the loop, I never was.

The more ignorant men are, the more convinced are they that their little parish and their little chapel is an apex to which civilization and philosophy has painfully struggled up the pyramid of time from a desert of savagery.

I wanted to get out of our thimble of a town, where every stone had eyes.

You may be big in New York, but in Walters, Oklahoma, you're nobody.

California, more than any other part of the Union, is a country by itself, and San Francisco a capital.